JNF’s TechShuk showcases local startup ingenuity

Janice Arnold, Staff Reporter

The Canadian Jewish News

The entrepreneurs behind five promising Montreal-based startups will make their pitches before a panel of prominent local business people, in a competition modelled after CBC’s long-running Dragons’ Den reality show that’s being organized by JNF Future.

As a response to the clean-air movement and the U.S. government’s denial of climate change, Peter Foldy, a Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, wrote the pop song “Toxic World.”

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz told Israel’s president in an update of his efforts to form an emergency unity government coalition that he may need to request an extension of his mandate, which is permitted by law.

As public and independent schools in British Columbia scramble to find a way to continue teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Greater Vancouver’s five Jewish day schools are priding themselves on online classes that are already up, running and working out the kinks they experience along th…

Today, a couple living apart but raising children jointly face new challenges as individual ideologies and philosophies are challenged, filling us with even more dread as we wonder, and worry about what is going on in the ‘other house.’

“Our hopes and yearning will be that this crisis will Pass Over, that we will all escape the tentacles of this dreaded virus, to a better day in which the interconnectedness that came so strongly to the fore during the pandemic will remain, and become even stronger as we face a future that, whatever…

Despite the virus-related spike, JF&CS’s goal is “to keep our programs up and running. We recognize that for many vulnerable people in the community, we are their only safety net during this time. We recognize that abandoning them now when they need us more than ever would be unthinkable.”